Podcast Episodes

The Pulitzer Drama Was Real and Other Book News PLUS: A Mini-Book Club for RUN FOR THE HILLS by Kevin Wilson

Jeff and Rebecca continue to lap up with extreme interest scuttlebutt about James's Pulitzer win before talking about Lithgow's underwhelming reactio…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

The Summer 2025 Draft [Teaser]

Jeff and Rebecca each select 10 books to win your vote in our Summer Preview draft.

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

JAMES Wins the Pulitzer & Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendations Part 2

First, Jeff and Rebecca digest Percival Everett's Pulitzer win (including a little palace intrigue of the literary variety). Then, they conclude this…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

2025 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Show, Part 1

Jeff and Rebecca respond to a range of listener recommendation requests, including, but not exclusively, for moms, dads, and grads.

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

The It Books of May 2025

Jeff and Rebecca try to determine what the It Book of May 2025 will be.

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Ranking the Stories of EXIT ZERO by Marie-Helene Bertino by How Marie-Helene Bertino They Are [Teaser]

This is a preview of the Patreon-only episode in which Jeff and Rebecca talk about Bertino's new short story collection by ranking the stories in Exi…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Celebrity Book Clubs GO IRL, Literary Grudges, and more book news

Jeff and Rebecca talk about still being pissed off about the 2012 non-pulitzer, Gaiman seemingly throwing in the image rehab towel, legal challenges …

9 months, 4 weeks ago

The 10 Best Winners of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction of the Century So Far

Jeff and Rebecca continue to get mileage out of the "Of the Century so Far" framing, this time by ranking the fiction winners of the Pulitzer prize. …

10 months ago

NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro, the book and the movie [Teaser]

It's the 20th anniversary of the publication of Kazuo Ishiguro's modern classic, Never Let Me Go. Jeff and Rebecca recorded this episode diving into …

10 months ago

Study Shows Book Bans Lead to Increased Readership, the "Shadow Daddies" of Romantasy, and More

Rebecca sits down with Vanessa Diaz to discuss a new study that shows book bans lead to increased readership of inclusive content, the men cashing in…

10 months ago